Job Summary:

Disney Streaming’s Observability Platform Engineering team is seeking a motivated Senior Software Engineer who will be an exceptional addition to our growing team. Our team is responsible for building, improving, and operating observability platforms, providing standards and best practices for teams to follow, implementing those standards into our application environments, and helping teams get the most out of each observability tool in a cost-effective manner.

The right person for this role is passionate about building and operating systems that are optimized for scalability, efficiency, reliability, and uptime. If you are someone who gets excited with sub-millisecond service response time and has experience building fault-tolerant systems at scale, then this is an excellent role for you. Come join our team and help create amazing application runtime platforms while revolutionizing streaming TV!

Responsibilities:

• Build observability best practices into our platforms to power our next-generation video services.
• Collaborate efficiently with engineering teams and other partners across Disney Streaming to gather requirements, develop solutions, provide visibility, and drive adoption.
• Collaborate with observability vendors to resolve issues and drive product enhancements
• Build operational tooling for internal and external customers.
• Proactively keep tabs on the latest industry trends and stay up-to-date on the cutting-edge technologies, to help keep Disney Streaming a leader in the field.
• Have a lot of fun.

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a team-focused approach towards software development and operations.
• Motivation to take initiative and own projects.
• Strong passion for automation, testing, and code quality.
• 4+ years of software development experience designing and building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime distributed systems from the ground up.
• Knowledge of observability principles and best practices such as Golden Signals, RED metrics, Pillars of Observability, etc.
• Familiarity with observability technologies such as distributed tracing, metrics, logging, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting.
• Strong proficiency in at least one widely used server-side programming language (Golang, Java, Python, etc.)
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux development environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience with SaaS offerings in the observability space, such as Datadog or New Relic
• Familiarity with scalable, high volume, fault tolerant time-series databases
• Experience working in a mix of AWS/Cloud and Enterprise data center environments.
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure configuration tooling
• Experience developing and operating infrastructure systems and services.
• Experience working with large-scale real-time systems.

Additional Information:

This position has the ability to be remote within the US for qualified candidates.

About Disney Streaming:

Comprised of the Company’s international business units and various direct-to-consumer streaming services, Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) aligns technology, media distribution and advertising sales into a single business segment to create and deliver personalized entertainment experiences to consumers around the world.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Services LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Disney Streaming.

Disney Streaming Services LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.